Fire and Brimstone [OOC]

[Dr Archeville]

Gain a Villain Point for the complication Jos' Secret Identity are putting on him? He doesn't want Ember, or any of his clan, known he's a demon. (I'll need one if I'm going to jury-rig a magic item for the scrying.)

[Kavos]

I'd allow it, It's a valid complication, and makes Jos life difficult with ember around the place ;)

[Dr Archeville]

Looks like Jos isn't the only one with a secret to protect ;)

[Dr Archeville]

Also, Jos can't not see through the Bluff: Ember got a 3 on Bluff, but Jos's Sense Motive modifier is a +9, so he can't get less than 10

Jos can use Artificer (and Take 10 on all the necessary rolls) to create a 6pp item (an Easy to Lose Device 2, 10 'device points' effect), but it'll take 30 hours (6 hrs design + 24 hours construct), or about 4 days. The question is, what to make?

At first I was going to say Telelocation 9 (entire globe; PF: Subtle). She'd get a DC 19 Will save to hide from it (and would need to make a DC 29 Notice check to sense what Jos is doing, or DC 19 notice check if she has some sort of magical awareness super-sense), and he does still need to make a Search check to try and find her. But the bigger issue is the time it'd take to do the extended search: searching all of Freedom City -- remember he was blanked on what happened when she had him Mind Controlled, so he doesn't known he told her to check Hanover, the Fens, and Riverside for Fox, but he is assuming she's staying here in the city -- will require some a lot of time, since the city's about 10 miles in radius (it's about 15 x 25 miles, or about 20 miles in diameter). That's 12 steps up the Extended Range & Area table, which means the time required is 12 steps up, which is... 10 years!

So instead, I'll go with Telelocation 6 (20 miles, or any spot in the city; PF: Subtle) w/ Linked Quickness 9 (x1,000; Flaw: Limited to Extended Telelocation Searches only [-2 Flaw]).

She'd get a DC 16 Will save to hide from it (and would need to make a DC 26 Notice check to sense what Jos is doing, or DC 16 notice check if she has some sort of magical awareness super-sense).

10 years divided by 1,000 = 3.65 days.

Or, Telelocation 6 (20 miles, or any spot in the city) w/ Linked Quickness 12 (x10,000; Flaw: Limited to Extended Telelocation Searches only [-2 Flaw]).

She'd get a DC 16 Will save to hide from it, but would only need to make a DC 16 Notice check to know she's being scryed on (and wouldn't require magic awareness to sense it).

10 years divided by 10,000 = about 8 hours

So, if he wants to be very careful (Subtle Telelocation), it'll take about 8 days. If he's not, and goes with un-Subtle Telelocation, it'll take about 5 days.

Right?

[Kavos]

Either way. Personally I'd probably be more inclined to go with the Subtle version. Sure it take's longer, but it's always better to make the person your tracking not know your tracking them

So at which point to save time...

Will

Notice

she must be busy with other things :P

[Dr Archeville]

It seems I was terribly wrong on the times listed above (which is why I started the thread linked at the end there, to double-check).

Searching the entire city would take just 1 day, not 50 years.

So I will go with Telelocation 6 (20 miles, or any spot in the city; PF: Subtle) w/ Linked Quickness 3 (x10; Flaw: Limited to Extended Telelocation Searches only [-2 Flaw]) and Linked Enhanced Skills 8 (Search +8 [+9 total]).

1 day divided by 10 = so the Search will take 2.4 hours

32.4 hours altogether, or a little over 4 days work.

And Jos's Search check is.... 19.

EDIT: 20, due to Jos's +1 Int.

.... I have no idea what the DC for this Search check should be; the books don't say. I wouldn't think it would be that high, since she doesn't know she's being scryed on, so she wouldn't know to hide from his peeping eyes... but if she's the cautious/paranoid type, she might try to hide just because.

[Dr Archeville]

Yes, I checked the calendar; Mysterious Woman in Red visited on August 3rd, on August 5th there's a full moon in the north east section of the USA. ;)

[Dr Archeville]

I suppose Ember can try a Knowledge (Arcane Lore) check, DC 16 (the same one Jos will be facing when making his Artificing checks), to work out that he's using demonic magic.

And a Sense Motive to see if he can beat his Bluff ;)

[Kavos]

Knowledge Arcane =15 :shock: so close yet so far...

Sense motive = 22

[Dr Archeville]

So how much did you want to play out the "Jos makes a Magic Mirror" thing? Unless something Terribly Important happens while he's working, we can just fast forward to when he's done & starts using it to search for the Mysterious Woman in Red.

[Kavos]

Yeah we can fast forward If you want You can post up a completion post and well go from there :)

[Dr Archeville]

Will Ember Paw see through Jo's ruse and realize he's not really hurt? Dun dun DUN!!!

[Kavos]

No point in rolling, even on a 20 he'd still fail (Max sense motive roll is 22)

[Kavos]

Morph 4 +20 disguise ;)

[Dr Archeville]

Unless you put some Shrinking in there, the "little girl" isn't that little.

[Kavos]

Ah I wasn't going for Little little girl, but a 19-20 year old one :P

[Dr Archeville]

This last post was partially inspired by the ending of the 1941 film The Devil and Daniel Webster. In it, a New Hampshire farmer sells his soul to "Mr. Scratch" for seven years of good fortune, but when it comes due the farmer gets Daniel Webster to find a way out. Webster offers his soul in exchange for a chance at a trial by jury to see if the Devil's claim is true; the Devil brings forth a "jury of the damned." Webster wins in the end (of course), but at the celebratory supper afterwards, the farmer's mother brings out a fresh-baked peach pie... but when she removed the cover, the pan was empty! Cut to the Devil down the road, greedily eating the entire peach pie.

[Dr Archeville]

Do remember it took four days to make the mirror, and that wasn't four days spent doing nothing but work on the mirror; Jos worked on it at night, and still worked the shoppe during the day. If Ember Paw was shadowing Jos the whole time, then Sirius Vulpes didn't show up to work those days.

[Kavos]

Yes, but I was meaning that Sirius is acting as if non of it ever happened, he's a week behind himself. ;)

[Dr Archeville]

Gotcha, just wanted to make sure we were on the same page :)